~No One Lives Forever~

Disclaimer: I don't own any characters in here, except for myself, and if Eric actually shows up later, he owns himself. And he can keep himself. Heh. I swear Jhonen must have somehow known him when he put Krik into book 5. Um, yeah...

AN: This has nothing to do with the song "No One Lives Forever" (btw, it's by Oingo Boingo--you download! Unless you're Iph, of course *rolls eyes*). But the song is really addictive and stuff, so with a lack of better ideas, I decided to call it that. Rambling = fun! Oh yeah, and this is pretty pointless, but also fun!


Chapter 1:

The nine of them stood outside a huge house. They, of course, being Zim, Dib, Gaz, Gir, Nny, Devi, Squee, Dalva, and Jhonen. No one really knew what brought them together that somewhat eventful day, but they were there nonetheless.

After a bit of staring at the house, Squee spoke. "D-Do we have to go in there? It looks scary."

"Well, we WERE dared by that jerk Eric," Dalva replied, still looking at the house. She continued in a sarcastic tone, "But knowing him, I'd say if we didn't go in, he'd kick our butts." She rolled her eyes.

"Jeez, why even bother?" Jhonen said a bit unenthusiastically. "I mean, the kid's what, eleven?"

"Fifteen, actually. He just looks eleven," Dalva corrected.

"Whatever," Jhonen continued. "Either way, he's just a stupid kid looking to do something stupid. I still say he's too young to be that much of an a-"

"Ahem! There are children present!" Dalva cut him off.

"Yeah. Including you."

"Oh yeah."

"Well, I'm with Jhonen on this," Nny said. "The kid IS most definitely a jerk and a half. When we're done with this little 'mission', I think I'll take care of him."

"I knew I liked you, Nny," Dalva said, smiling.

"Er...OK...Good for you," Nny said with his eyebrow raised. Devi also raised an eyebrow at her, but decided not to say anything because she wasn't quite sure what Dalva meant.

Zim had pulled Gir aside to tell him something about collecting data for these "ghosts" he heard Dib talking about on the way to the house. No one paid attention to them until Gir screeched, "The ghost stole my taquitos!!!"

At that, Squee looked about twice as freaked as before. "There are ghosts?! Even worse, the ghosts steal stuff!" He finished with a little "meep" noise.

"Poor Squee," Devi said in a tone you would normally use when saying "poor Squee". "Anyway, what's with this, er, ghost thieves thing?"

"Heh, kleptomaniac ghosts. Sounds like a band name," Dalva observed.

"Well, kleptomaniacal or not, this'll be great!" Dib enthused. "I brought along this handy-dandy ectoplasmic photography camera I ordered from the back of Crop Circles magazine. I might finally appear on Mysterious Mysteries!"

"Uh huh, yeah, sure you will, Dib," Zim said, rolling his eyes. Dib ignored this.

Everyone then turned to Gaz, noticing she hadn't said anything since they got there. Gaz looked up from her Game Slave. She got the standard psycho look on her face. "Can't I at LEAST play a video game in PEACE without everyone STARING at me?!" She did a vicious, threatening head swerve thing in everyone else's direction. They all stepped back. [AN: Tiger claw! LOL.]

Devi spoke. "Well, I guess we should ge this over with. Let's get inside before Eric comes back." Everyone did so, including poor little reluctant Squee.